The Best Hotels Near 1887, by the Record
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A Victorian manor sitting right on the edge of a Highland loch, with turrets and a brick facade that look lifted from a Romantic painting, The Torridon is a Forbes Four Star hotel in one of Scotland's more uncompromising landscapes. Inside, the original features stay but the furnishings skew contemporary. Rooms spread across the main house, the old stables, and a private boathouse. Rates start around £400 a night, which is the price of remoteness done properly.
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A working whisky distillery that also happens to have six rooms, on a 14-mile island off Skye reached by ferry and a short walk from the pier. Each room in the converted Factor's House comes with a bottle of Raasay's own whisky, views across to Skye, and a breakfast room whose stone feature wall doubles as a geology lesson, fossils included, for guests who look closely enough. Distillery tours run through the full process and end with a tasting.
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A 16th-century hunting lodge on the Isle of Skye, run by the Macdonald family with the kind of low-key confidence that old Scottish families tend to pull off effortlessly. Rooms lean toward the lavish, and the loch-facing ones have views that make packing up feel like a moral failure. The drawing room, the lounge, and miles of walking paths give you plenty of reasons to never quite make it back to your room. Holds a Michelin Key.
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Six rooms in a hunting lodge deep in the Isle of Skye, where the point is arguably the restaurant and the landscapes rather than the beds, though the beds come dressed in local tweeds and tartans. The kitchen leans hard on traditional recipes and whatever the island actually produces, so the menu shifts with the season and the catch. You come this far into Skye on purpose, and Edinbane Lodge gives that decision somewhere to land.
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Loch Ness laps at the edge of this adults-only Victorian guest house, which holds a Michelin Key, and the owners live on site and decorated the place themselves in a style that somehow feels both contemporary and period without tipping into tartan overload. Breakfast is a proper affair, and the dining room opens in the evenings with the loch framed in the window, should the monster decide to make an appearance.
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